Thanks for all the responses and the links! Looks like it may be time to do a little shopping, especially since with the expiration of windows 7 coming up, I'll need to do some reinstalling anyway.
Looking for better frame rates on things like Crysis, etc.
Current rig is a E6300 @ 3.01Ghz w/ 512mb ATI HD4850)
Will upgrading video card to a 5850/5870 or maybe a gtx 285 give me a noticible improvment?
Or would I also need to upgrade CPU (was thinking about moving to an i5-based...
Thanks for the advice. I bought Acronis MigrateEasy, it first copied and resized the partitions, THEN copied the MBR and everything worked OK (without having to run startup repair). Not sure why disk director didn't work (copy mbr first versus after the partitions??), but at least my system is...
Please let me know if anyone has any ideas on this!
The setup:
Moving from 160 gb to 1TB, both are sata
Partition 1 is winXP on ntfs, set as active
Partition 2 is Win 7, ntfs obviously
Bootloader is the win7 boot manager
Bought acronis disk director suite, install new disk, copy...
OK. I lost Dell reinstall CD. But of course have the product key on the side of the machine.
I've searched, and mostly people are trying to do the opposite of what I'm trying.
Will the Dell key work with either a "generic" (non-branded) OEM or Retail XP install CD?
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